Attachment for feeding cards to type-writers.



I I. e. HOLLIDAY.

ATTACHMENT FOR FEEDING CARDS TO TYPE WRITERS. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1913.

1, 104,504, Patented July 21, 19M

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ATTORNEYS cards or like articles, as for IVAR G. HQLLIDAY, F BOISE, IDAHO.

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'JlJllMHlitlat. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 7211', 121d.

-- Application filed August 20, 1913. Serial Ito. 785,682,

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To all whom it may concern v Be it known that l, Ivan G. HoLLroAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boise, in the county of Ada and State of" Idaho, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Feeding Cards to Type-\Vriters, of which the followin 4 is a specification.

y invention is an improvement in attachments for feeding cards to typewriters, and has for its object to provide 3. feed for connection with typewriters, wherein a magazine isprovided for containing a packet of instance, filing cards and mechanism in connection with the magazine for feeding the cards in succession' to the typewriter. in the drawings :Figure l is a view of the improved feed shown in connection with a typewriter, Fig. 2 vis a vertical section through the feed, Fig. 3 is an end view showing the connection between the platen roll and the feed, Fig. 4 is a front View of the'feed,l*ig. 5 is a side-view of one of the guide plates, and Fig. 6 is an'enlarged detail of aportion of the operating mechanism for the feed rollers.

As is. known, in filling out filing cards and the'like on a typewriter, it is necessary to lay the cards near the machine, and the cards must'be taken separately by hand, and

fed into the typewriter in the usual manner '1' this reason more time is of letter heads. F5 consumed in the feeding of the cards than in the filling out of the same.

The pres ent embodiment of the invention is shown in connection with a typewriter 1,

having the usual carriage 2, which carries the platen roll 3, and the roll is provided at one end withthe usual knob for turning the roll. The improvement comprises a maga- I zine or'holder for the cards or other articles to be fed, the said magazine comprising a bottom plate 4, a top plate 5, side or cheek plates 6, and a front or base ,7 An opening is provided between the front or base 7 and the bottom 4, and the cards are fed in succession from the bottom of the magazine. The top of themagazine is open, to permit the cards to be inserted.

bottom of the magazine, a rear series con-- sisting of rollers 8, 9 and 10, and a front series consisting of rollers 11 and 12;

A plurality of series of rollers are arranged near the feed Guide plates 13 are provided Within the hopper at each end thereoffor engagement by the ends of the cards to provide for different widths of cards. Each of the guide plates 13. is provided with a forwardly and downwardly extending arm 14, and each arm has a caring which slides upona rod 15 supported in bearing lugs 16 on the end plates 6 of the magazine. Eachof the arms 14 has a finger piece 17 in frontof the rod 15, for engagement by the operator to move the guide plates 13toward or from each other. The plates are adjusted in accordance with the width of the cards, and each plate is provided at its lower ,end, at its front and at its rear edge with rounded lugs 18 and 19, which move in transverse grooves 20 and 2lrespectively in the top and bottom walls 5 and 4 of the magazine.

The magazine is provided at each end with a rearwardly and downwardly extending arm 22, and each arm has a bearing which is journaled on the rod 23 of the typewriter which usually supports the paper'table of the typewriter. The rearwall 4 is slotted transversely at each of therollers 8, 9 and 10, and the rollers are so arranged that a portion ofv the periphery of each roller ex- "tends slightly beyond the inner face of the wall 4, and into engagement with the cards 24 in the magazine.

The shafts of the rollers 8, Qand 101 are extended at the left hand end of the platen, through a plate 25, supported by the magazine, and extending between the same and the platen roll. The extended end shaft 8 is provided with a vgear. wheel the extended end of the shaft of the roller 9 is provided with a gear wheel 80, and the extended end of the shaft of the roller 10 is rovided with a gear wheel 29.

An idler 27 is journal'ed on a stub shaft extending laterally from the plate 25 between the gears 29 and 30,, and the said idler 27 meshes with the gears 29- and 30. Another idler 26 is journaled on a stub shaft extending laterally from the plate between the gears 30 and 35, and meshes with the said Oear a I The rollers 11 and 12 are arranged. opposite the rollers 9 and 10, and-the, front wall or base 7 of the magazine iscutfaway at the passage through which the cards leave the magazine to permit the periphery of the .roller ll to. engage a card assoonas it learns of the the magazine, and the cards are fed between the rollers 9, 11, 10 and 12.

The shaft of the roller 11 is provided with a gear wheel .31, :andthe shaft of the roller 29 and 32 respectively, of the rollers 10 and 12 respectively.

An idler 34 is journaled on the stub shaft adjacent to the gear wheel 35, and the said idler meshes with the gear wheel 35 of the roller 8 and with the gearwheel 31 of the roller 11. I

The roller '12 is supported by resilient arms 36 the said arms eing connected with the shaft of the roller at one end and with the front or bfiSGT'Of the magazine, as indicated at 37. The roller 11 has the ends of its shaft journaled in bearings in the ends of links 38, and the other ends of the said links are secured to the free ends of the arms 39 of levers, each lever consisting of the arms 39 andanarm 40. The arm 40 is offset laterally from the arm 39, (Fig. 1) and the levers are pivoted at 41 to the ends or cheek plates of tie magazines. A set screw 42 is threaded through a lug 43 at each end of the magazine, and the inner end ofeach set screw engages the offset end of the arm 40. When the set screwsare turned in either direction, the roller 12 will be moved toward or from the roller10, according to the direction of movement of the set screw.

The roller 12 is'journaled in thef'en'dsof arms 44, each of the said arm's being pivoted at. 45 to the adjacen cheek late 6. {The lower end of the rear wall 4 the magazine. extends to near the upper end 'of'the guide plates 46' of the typewritenthe said 7 guide platesbeing hung on arod 47 alt their upper ends, and the lower ends of'the. rods extend to near the rubber rollers 48 of/the typewriter that cooperate with the platen roll in feeding the paper.

At the opposite end ofthe platen roll from the knob by which it isturned, a bevel gear wheel'49 is arranged,"the said wheel being secured to the shaft 50 of the platen roll, and ashaft 51 journaled in'bearing lugs -52 on the plate 25' is provided with a bevel gear 53 meshingwith' the gear wheel 49. The shaft 51 is provided with a worm 54, meshing with a worm wheel 55 on the extended end of the stub shaft which carries the idler 33. i

In use, when the platen roll 3 is rotated by the knob, the shaft 51 isfrotated, and in turn rotates the worm wheel 54 and the idler 33. ,The said idler rotates the gear wheel 28 connected with the shaft 10, and through the idler 29 the gear wheel 27 of the shaft 9 is rotated in the same direction as the shaft 10. Through the idler 30 the gear wheel 26 of the sha t 8 is rotated, and through the idlers 34 and 35 the gear wheel 31 of the shaft 11 is rotated, the roller 8 in the same direction as the rollers 9 and 10, and the roller 11 in the opposite direction. The idler 33 also rotates the gear wheel 32 connected with the roller 12, and in the opposite direction to the roller 11.

In operation, the typewriter may be used in the usual manner, the paper sheets being turned back upon the front of the magazine, as they are writ-ten upon. Vhen it is desired, to feed cards or envelope, the cardsor envelops are placed in the magazinc, and the platen roll is operated to turn down the rearmost .card or envelop in the place beneath the platen roll inthe same manner as when feeding a sheet of paper.

When the platen is turned as above mentioned, the rollers 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are rotated, to feed the envelop or card down between the rollers into position beneath the platen roll, and the turning of the platen roll is'cont-inued until the envelop is in the position to receive the address or other writing. As soon as the upper edge of the first envelop passes below the lower edge of the next succeeding envelop, the said next or succeeding envelop also begins to feed, and the envelops or cards are fed in succession from the magazine to a-position beneath the platen roll. The rollersll and l2.are des gned to move away from the rollers 9 and '11, only enough topermit the passage of a card or envelop.

I The gear vwheel of the roller 11 is always held at the same radial 39, as shown more particularly in Fig, 3. Thegear'wheel 32 of the roller 12, and the gear wheel, 33, have teethof-greaterflength than usual, 1n order that'theymay be moved away fromeach. other slightly, without. mov ing out of mesh. That is the arrangement of the gearqwheels' is such that the roller 12.-

may be moved away from the gear wheel 33 'di'stance from the gear wheel 34 by the links far enoughto permit the .passage of a card between the feed rollers, without causing the- 1 gear wheelstotglisengage each other. \IVhen the'platenroll is turned in a direction to feed the cards or envelops, the worm shaft 51 rotates the gear wheel 33, which in. turn rotates the shaft ll), through the gear wheels 28 and 29. The roller 91s rotated through the gear wheel 27, and the roller 8 through the gear wheel 26. The roller 11 receives motion from the roller 8, by way of the gear wheels 31, 34 and 35. i

The roller l2 may yield away from the roller 10 on account of the resiliency ofthe-130 arms36 which carry the same. The pressure exerted by the roller 11 on the card may be varied by means of the set screws Strips 56 are connected withthe rear wall of the magazine, by means of rivets 57, and the rivets are arranged to permit the strips 56 to take an upright position, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4c, or to take a position against the rear of the magazine. The said strips are designed to support cards of greater length than the depth of the magazine, andv it is obvious that as many of the said strips may be connected with the magazine as may be desired. The arms 14 of the guide plates 13 are spaced from the lugs 16 b means of sleeves 58, the said sleeves encircling the rod 15 between the bearings of the arms 14 and the lugs 16, and each sleeve is held in fixed position by means of a set screw ,59. When the guide plates 13 are moved toward each other from the position shown in Fig. 1,

the sleeves are also moved with the plates, and after the plates are in adjusted position, the set screws are tightened to hold the sleeves and the plates in position. A plurality of links 38 1s arranged to connect the shaft of the roller 11 with the outer ends of the arms 39, and there is an arm 39 for each of the links. The end links 38 have a single bearing for the shaft 61 of the roller 11, while the intermediate links 38 have two bearings (50 for the said shafts.

Preferably the roller 11- is not a single roller, but several short rollers are used, the said short rollers being arranged between the bearings 60 of the links, as shown in Fig. l. The roller 9 is also preferably composed of a series of short rollers, one for each of the rollers 11. The rollers 8, 10 and 12 may be similarl arranged. Coil springs (32 encircle the shaft 41, and act normally to press the rollers 11 toward the rollers 9.

The gear wheels 29, 30' and 35 are connected with the shafts 10, 9 and 8 respectively. The wheels 33, 28 27, 26 and 34 are idlers journaled on stub shafts, and arranged to give the proper direction of rotation to the gear wheels 29,30,35,31 and 32. The worm wheel 55 and the idler 33 are rigidly connected, and rotate as one in a clockwise direction. The gear wheels 35, 30, 29, 33 and 31 rotate also in a clockwise direction, while the idlers 3a, 36, 27 and the gear wheel 32 rotate in anti-clockwise direction. The rollers 11 and 12 rotate in the opposite direction, as stated.

In practice, the sleeve 58 is preferably aranged on the outer side of thebearings of the arms 14., in order to permit the plates 13 to move the full width of the magazine, to permit the feeding of the wider cards or longer envelops, as the case may be, for it will be understood that the feeding mechanism is equally as well adapted for feeding envelops as for feeding cards. The rollers 8, 9, l0 and ll rotate in anti-clockwise direction, while the roller 12 rotates in a clockwise direction. e

The rollers 11 and 12 are mounted to move very slightly, just far enough from. the rollers 9 and 10 to permit the passage of a card, and the teeth of the gear wheels are of suflicient length to permit this movement without disengagement. The movement is very slight, since no great amount of movement necessary. The bearing openings for the shaft in the plate 25 are merely elongated slightly in the direction of movement of the shaft. As shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the roller 12 may yield upward, that is directly away from the roller 1.0. The relative position of the gear wheels 31 and 34.- is not changed, however, by this movement, since there is a link 39 (Fig. 3) which connects the shafts upon. which the gear Wheels 31 and 34; are mounted.

I claim 1. An attachment for feeding cards and the like to typewriters, comprising in com bination with the carriage of the typewriter and the platen roll, of a magazine having means for engaging the carriage to hold the magazine in approximately vertical position and inclining rearwardly toward its upper end, a rod supported transversely of the magazine at the upper side of the front thereof, sleeves on the rod near each end of the magazine, a set screw for holding each sleeve in adjusted position, guide plates. within the magazine at each end. thereof, and adjustable toward and from each other, said magazine having a feed opening at its lower end and at its rear wall, and means for feeding cards in succession from the magazine through the feed opening.

2. An attachment for feeding cards and the like to typewriters, comprising a maga: zine having means for engaging the carriage of the typewriter for supporting the magazine in inclined position above and in rear of the platen roll, and guide plates within the magazine at the ends thereof, each plate having a slidable connection with the magazinc, and the said plates having lugs at their front and rear edges, the magazine having transverse grooves for engagement by the lugs.

3. An attachment for feeding cards and the like to typewriters, comprising a mags: zine having means for engaging the typewriter carriage to support the magazine in inclined position in rear and above the platen roll, said magazine having a feed opening atits lower end and at its rear wall, said rear wall being extended below the feed opening and having transverse slots or openings above and below the feed opening, a roller supported by themagazine at each opening, a portion of the periphery of each roller extending through 

